Business India
Pity the Brahmins
By P. SAINATH
A signal achievement of the Indian elite in recent years has been to take caste, give it a fresh coat of paint, and repackage it as a struggle for equality.
The agitations in the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences and other such institutions were fine examples of this. Casteism is no longer in defensive [...]
Dalit UP Chief Minister to use e-tendering for ending ‘Brahmin mafia raj’
Brahmin Percentage in Indian States
The Uttar Pradesh government has announced implementation of an electronic and transparent tender system for ending ” Brahmin mafia raj” in construction projects especially those funded by the World Bank.
The new system “will give an end to the mafia raj and any person will be in a position to apply for [...]
Bribes in Andhra Pradesh, part of state inflation
Andhra Pradesh: Bribes adjusted for inflation!
Narendra Ch, 02 January 2008,
The Andhra Pradesh government’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has come to the conclusion that only 10 per cent of the 14-lakh state government employees are scrupulously honest. Others range between the totally corrupt to the fence sitters.
CORRUPTION HAS become part and parcel of the Indian administration. Corruption [...]
More than 15 million rural household in India are landless
NEW DELHI: More than 15 million rural households in India are landless. Another 45 million rural families own some land, less than 0.10 acre each, which is hardly enough to make them self- sufficient, let alone generate a profit.
To benefit landless farm workers and small farmers, most States either prohibit or restrict renting of farmland. [...]
World Bank debars 2 firms in Indian child health project
WASHINGTON: In its global fight against corruption, the World Bank has debarred two firms for alleged collusive practices in connection with the Bank-financed Reproductive and Child Health Project in India.
The two firms, Nestor Pharmaceuticals Ltd and Pure Pharma Ltd were debarred for a period of three years and one year respectively after a sanctions hearing [...]
How RSS exported terror to Malaysia?
In 2006, Malaysia offered VOA (Visa on Arrivals) to Indian and Chinese passport holders to boost tourism and thus its economy. In the same year, Malaysian immigration records found that 2,789 Indian tourists had overstayed followed by 355 from China after they introduced VOA to both nations. Alarmed by the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )India drops down 2 places in HDI, ranks 128th
India growing? It’s not showing, Country unable to break out of class of laggards in UN assessment
The world’s second highest economic growth rate has not yet helped India hoist itself away from its customary position in the global development report card.
The Human Development Report for 2007-08 released by the UNDP today ranked India 128 [...]
India, Where paradoxes reign supreme
It has become a cliché to speak of India as a land of paradoxes. The old joke about our country is that anything you say about India, the opposite is also true. We like to think of ourselves as an ancient civilisation but we are also a young republic; our IT experts stride confidently into [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Farmers commit suicides in India’s developed states
22 Nov 2007, Vishwa Mohan & Nitin Sethi,TNN
NEW DELHI: Data derived from first information reports filed all over the country and compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau has revealed that it is the farmer in economically more developed states, not traditional BIMARU ones, who is the most vulnerable.
What the statistics bring out clearly is [...]
150 million rich produced 4.5 times more carbon emissions than the 800 million poor Indians
Greenpeace calls for pollution tax on India’s 150 million rich
France24.com, 13 Nov 2007
India’s wealthy consumers, who make up a fraction of its 1.1 billion population, are fuelling the country’s greenhouse gas emissions and should be required to pay extra tax, an environmental watchdog said on Tuesday.
Some 150 million Indians, splurging on luxury goods and air [...]
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